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Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.
The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.
These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.
And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant.
Even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.
O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
